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Davos, 19 January 2017 – Today at the World Economic Forum Annual Meeting in Davos, 25 leading global companies including Danone announced their collaborative commitment to accelerating transformational change in global food systems.

At Danone, we want to influence healthier eating and drinking practices, to encourage healthier lives of people. These nutrition commitments outline our vision of nutrition, and provide the principles that guide our decisions, and stipulate our standards and rules.

Since their discovery by biologist Elie Metchnikoff in the early 20th Century, the role of lactic ferments as part of a healthy diet has been widely confirmed. Let’s look back over a century of research serving human health.

The Livelihoods at Mount Elgon project (Kenya): improving the standard of living for farmers and protecting the environment

The Mount Elgon project was launched in Kitale (Kenya) on 11 October 2016: a joint initiative between the Livelihoods Fund, the dairy firm Brookside Dairies and the NGO Vi Agroforestry designed to improve living conditions for farmers living on the slopes of Mount Elgon, while preserving a badly-eroded ecosystem.

The H’lib Bladi project in Morocco: a sustainable agriculture approach in partnership with small-scale local producers

One year after COP 21 in Paris, at which a historic agreement was signed between the participating countries, COP 22 is taking place in Marrakech from 7 to 18 November. Danone is present with a stand in the green zone, close to the AAA (Adaptation of African Agriculture) zone.